Field notes on project controls
Written for planning engineers, project managers and contract teams executing heavy industrial work in India. No vendor fluff — just how to measure execution properly and defend it commercially.
Why percentage progress lies — and what to measure instead
Ask five engineers for progress on the same front and you will get five numbers. The problem is not honesty; it is that percentage is a conclusion, not a measurement.
Earned value without the jargon: a practical guide for Indian contractors
CPI, SPI, EAC and VAC sound like consultant vocabulary. They are actually four simple questions about whether you are going to lose money on this package.
DPR discipline that actually sticks on site
Most daily progress reporting dies within a month, not because engineers are lazy, but because the form takes twelve minutes and gives them nothing back.
The hindrance register that wins extension-of-time claims
Most delay claims fail on evidence, not on merit. The difference is whether the delay was recorded on the day it happened or reconstructed eighteen months later.
AI in project controls: what actually works, and what is theatre
Forecasting a slipping work front is a genuinely useful application of machine intelligence. Asking a chatbot to write your monthly report is not.
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